January 2010
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 Tectonic activity poses varying degrees of challenge for the communities experiencing it.
Discuss.
(Total for Question = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 The variety of glacial landscapes results from distinctive processes. Discuss.
(Total for Question = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 Current food insecurity will only be solved if management strategies operate at all scales.
Discuss.
(Total for Question = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 To what extent does a global culture exist?
(Total for Question = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 Evaluate the success of a range of management strategies in reducing health risks.
(Total for Question = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 The changing nature of leisure and tourism poses challenges for rural areas across the world.
Discuss.
(Total for Question = 70 marks)
June 2010
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 ‘Tectonic hazard profiles determine the way in which people and governments respond to
hazards.’ Discuss.
(Total 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 ‘Approaches to managing cold environments are as varied as the environments themselves.’
Discuss.
(Total 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 ‘Food supply inequalities have complex physical and human causes.’ Discuss
(Total 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 Evaluate the role different players have in sustaining and enhancing local cultures and cultural
landscapes.
(Total 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 To what extent is pollution control a key strategy in reducing health risks?
(Total 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 Explain why strategies used to manage rural areas popular for leisure and tourism vary in their
effectiveness.
(Total 70 marks)
January 2011
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 Explain why tectonic processes produce a variety of contrasting landscapes.
(Total for Question 1 = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 Explain why the distribution of cold environments was more widespread in the past than it is at
present.
(Total for Question 2 = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 ‘Many attempts to reduce food insecurity by increasing food production are controversial.’
Discuss.
(Total for Question 3 = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 Explain why some cultures and cultural landscapes are more vulnerable and threatened than
others.
(Total for Question 4 = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 Explain why the causes of current health risks in some locations are more complex than others.
(Total for Question 5 = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 ‘As more players use rural landscapes for leisure and tourism, conflicts become more complex.’
Discuss.
(Total for Question 6 = 70 marks)
June 2011
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 Assess the relative importance of physical and human factors in determining the severity of
tectonic hazard impacts.
(Total for Question 1 = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 To what extent do periglacial processes produce distinctive landforms and landscapes?
(Total for Question 2 = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 Assess the extent to which desertification is a major contributor to food insecurity.
(Total for Question 3 = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 Assess the extent to which globalisation is having a negative impact on cultural diversity.
(Total for Question 4 = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 Assess the extent to which health risks can be related to geographical features.
(Total for Question 5 = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 Discuss the criteria that might be used to measure the significance and fragility of rural
landscapes used for leisure and tourism.
(Total for Question 6 = 70 marks)
January 2012
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 ‘The number of tectonic hazards is not increasing but their impact has become more disastrous.’
Discuss.
(Total for Question 1 = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 Explain why glacial and periglacial processes produced a range of landscapes within a region
such as the British Isles.
(Total for Question 2 = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 Evaluate the importance of developing sustainable strategies to manage food security.
(Total for Question 3 = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 Assess the extent to which cultures need to change in order to survive.
(Total for Question 4 = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 ‘Health risks from pollution have changed location and increased over time.’ Discuss.
(Total for Question 5 = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 Assess the extent to which players have contrasting attitudes about the use of rural areas for
leisure and tourism.
(Total for Question 6 = 70 marks)
June 2012
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 Evaluate the importance of different factors which influence how successfully people and
organisations cope with tectonic hazards.
(Total for Question 1 = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 To what extent do cold environments present different management and development
challenges?
(Total for Question 2 = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 To what extent do the characteristics of food insecurity vary in rural and urban areas?
(Total for Question 3 = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 ‘Differing cultural attitudes to the environment inevitably lead to conflict, both locally and
globally.’ Discuss.
(Total for Question 4 = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 Assess the complex relationship between health risk and quality of life at a variety of scales.
(Total for Question 5 = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 To what extent does leisure and tourism have negative impacts on rural areas?
(Total for Question 6 = 70 marks)
January 2013
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 Assess the significance of plate margins in the spatial distribution of tectonic hazards.
(Total for Question 1 = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 Assess the importance of the values and attitudes of interest groups in determining how different
cold environments are used.
(Total for Question 2 = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 ‘Currently, drylands are the areas most vulnerable to the threat of food insecurity.’ Discuss.
(Total for Question 3 = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 Evaluate the relative importance of the different factors which contribute to the development of
cultural landscapes.
(Total for Question 4 = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 To what extent is health risk strongly related to the level of economic development?
(Total for Question 5 = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 Assess the reasons why different strategies are used to manage leisure and tourism in rural
areas.
(Total for Question 6 = 70 marks)
June 2013
OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards
1 To what extent is the level of development the main factor affecting the challenges posed by
tectonic hazards?
(Total for Question 1 = 70 marks)
OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
2 Explain the relative importance of different geomorphological processes in creating distinctive
glacial landforms.
(Total for Question 2 = 70 marks)
OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
3 ‘Strategies that attempt to increase food security vary in their effectiveness.’ Discuss.
(Total for Question 3 = 70 marks)
OPTION 4: The World of Cultural Diversity
4 To what extent do different players have contrasting attitudes towards the protection of cultures
and cultural diversity?
(Total for Question 4 = 70 marks)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
5 To what extent does the type and degree of health risk influence the choice of management
strategy?
(Total for Question 5 = 70 marks)
OPTION 6: Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism
6 To what extent have the threats posed by leisure and tourism in rural areas increased and
changed over time?
(Total for Question 6 = 70 marks)